haya—grīva m. ‘horse-necked’, N. of a form of Viṣṇu (manifested accord. to one legend, in order to recover the Veda carried off by two Daityas called Madhu and Kaiṭabha), [Pañcar.]
of a Daitya (also called brahma-veda-prahartṛ, as having carried off the Vedas at the dissolution of the universe caused by Brahma's sleep at the end of the past Kalpa; in order to recover them, Viṣṇu became incarnate as a Matsya or fish, and slew Haya-grīva), [Hariv.]; [Kathās.] &c.
of a Rākṣasa, [R.]
of a Tantra deity, [Buddh.]
of a Rājarṣi, [MBh.]
of a wicked king of the Videhas, [MBh.]
of a Muni, [Cat.]
of the supposed author of the Chāndogya Upaniṣad and various other writers &c., [ib.]